Wave loads on the foundation of a bottom-hinged modular flap structure

Large loads result in expensive foundations which are a substantial proportion of the capital cost of flap-type Wave Energy Converters (WECs). Devices such as Oyster 800, currently deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), comprise a single flap for the full width of the machine. Splitting a flap-type device into smaller vertical flap modules, to make a ‘modular-flap’, might reduce the total foundation loads, whilst still providing acceptable performance in terms of energy conversion.
This paper investigates the foundation loads of an undamped modular-flap device, comparing them to those for a rigid flap of an equivalent width. Physical modelling in a wave tank is used, with loads recorded using a six degree of freedom (DoF) load cell. Both fatigue and extreme loading analysis was conducted. The rotations of the flaps were also recorded, using a motion-tracking system.

Creación de una microempresa dedicada a la producción ovina a la comercialización de la carne de cordero a travéz de un asadero a la explotación de los derivados del cordero

En el Ecuador existe miles de hectáreas de páramos y subpáramos que se encuentran en algunos casos abandonados y en otros mal aprovechados, en este caso la crianza de ovinos podría solucionar muchos de estos problemas. Por otro lado el ovino criollo en un 90% es un animal adaptado a condiciones extremas de clima y manejo, donde a excepción de los camélidos sudamericanos, es la única especie que se puede explotar. La ovejería se encuentra donde existe la mayor población de campesinos, esto no es una coincidencia, ni tampoco se puede afirmar que la oveja es para los más pobres, por el contrario la oveja les proporciona carne, lana, leche, pieles, abono, etc, es decir muchas familias ecuatorianas subsisten de la producción ovina en el país.1 La carne de cordero es uno de los alimentos más degustados en guiso, frito, asado o hervido, cualquiera que sea su formato el resultado es siempre exquisito, sin olvidar su alto poder nutritivo. Además, el cordero es fuente de proteínas, zinc y vitaminas del grupo B –sobre todo niacina, riboflavina y B12–. Cualidades que hacen de esta carne el aliado perfecto de los paladares.

Fadiga e comportamento tensão-deformação cíclico da liga de alumínio 7050-T7451

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, 2016.

TRAILER project overview: tagging, recognition and acknowledgment of informal learning experiences

The evolution of new technology and its increasing use, have for some years been making the existence of informal learning more and more transparent, especially among young and older adults in both Higher Education and workplace contexts. However, the nature of formal and non-formal, course-based, approaches to learning has made it hard to accommodate these informal processes satisfactorily, and although technology bring us near to the solution, it has not yet achieved. TRAILER project aims to address this problem by developing a tool for the management of competences and skills acquired through informal learning experiences, both from the perspective of the user and the institution or company. This paper describes the research and development main lines of this project.

Avaliação funcional ventilatória e dos músculos respiratórios em doentes com artrite reumatóide e sem compromisso clínico pulmonar

Arquivos de Medicina, 1994, 8 (4): 199-202

Resolución No. 121: Por la cual se decide una revocatoria directa

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Level and precision of behavioural thermoregulation in the bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps : effects of hypoxia and environmental thermal quality /

Most metabolic functions are optimized within a narrow range of body temperatures, which is why thermoregulation is of great importance for the survival and overall fitness of an animal. It has been proposed that lizards will thermoregulate less precisely in low thermal quality environments, where the costs associated with thermoregulation are high; in the case of lizards, whose thermoregulation is mainly behavioural, the primary costs ofthermoregulation are those derived from locomotion. Decreasing thermoregulatory precision in costly situations is a strategy that enhances fitness by allowing lizards to be more flexible to changing environmental conditions. It allows animals to maximize the benefits of maintaining a relatively high body temperature while minimizing energy expenditure. In situations where oxygen concentration is low, the costs of thermoregulation are relatively high (i.e. in relation to the amount of oxygen available for metabolic functions). As a result, it is likely that exposures to hypoxic conditions induce a decrease in the precision of thermoregulation. This study evaluated the effects of hypoxia and low environmental thermal quality, two energetically costly conditions, on the precision and level of thermoregulation in the bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps, in an electronic temperature-choice shuttle box. Four levels of hypoxia (1O, 7, 5 and 4% 02) were tested. Environmental thermal quality was manipulated by varying the rate of temperature change (oTa) in an electronic temperature-choice shuttle box. Higher oT a's translate into more thermally challenging environments, since under these conditions the animals are forced to move a greater number of times (and hence invest more energy in locomotion) to maintain similar temperatures than at lower oTa's. In addition, lizards were tested in an "extreme temperatures" treatment during which air temperatures of the hot and cold compartments of the shuttle box were maintained at a constant 50 and 15°C respectively. This was considered the most thermally challenging environment. The selected ambient (T a) and internal body temperatures (Tb) of bearded dragons, as well as the thermoregulatory precision (measured by the central 68% ofthe Ta and T b distribution) were evaluated. The thermoregulatory response was similar to both conditions. A significant increase in the size of the Tb range, reflecting a decrease in thermoregulatory precision, and a drop in preferred body temperature of ~2 °C, were observed at both 4% oxygen and at the environment of lowest thermal quality. The present study suggests that in energetically costly situations, such as the ones tested in this study, the bearded dragon reduces energy expenditure by decreasing preferred body temperature and minimizing locomotion, at the expense of precise behavioural thermoregulation. The close similarity of the behavioural thermoregulatory response to two very different stimuli suggests a possible common mechanism and neuronal pathway to the thermoregulatory response.

Seasonal reproductive endothermy in tegu lizards

With some notable exceptions, small ectothermic vertebrates are incapable of endogenously sustaining a body temperature substantially above ambient temperature. This view was challenged by our observations of nighttime body temperatures sustained well above ambient (up to 10°C) during the reproductive season in tegu lizards (~2 kg). This led us to hypothesize that tegus have an enhanced capacity to augment heat production and heat conservation. Increased metabolic rates and decreased thermal conductance are the same mechanisms involved in body temperature regulation in those vertebrates traditionally acknowledged as “true endotherms” : the birds and mammals. The appreciation that a modern ectotherm the size of the earliest mammals can sustain an elevated body temperature through metabolic rates approaching that of endotherms enlightens the debate over endothermy origins, providing support for the parental care model of endothermy, but not for the assimilation capacity model of endothermy. It also indicates that, contrary to prevailing notions, ectotherms can engage in facultative endothermy, providing a physiological analog in the evolutionary transition to true endothermy.

Consideraciones acerca de la memoria y el olvido en un caso de neurosis obsesiva.

Tesis (Maestría en Psicología Clínica con orientación Psicoanalítica) UANL, 2014.

Estudio de caso DMT y síndrome autista: aportes para una intervención desde una terapia por el arte.

El tema de la tesina es ¿DMT y Síndrome Autista: aportes para una intervención desde una terapia por el arte¿. El trabajo se centra en un estudio de caso de una joven con retraso mental severo, con diagnóstico de TGD o autismo de alto funcionamiento. La presentación está organizada en tres partes, en la primera expongo el tema de la tesina, describo sus objetivos y el marco teórico referencial: explicación del diagnóstico, fenómenos transicionales, autoterapia del niño autista, DMT y autismo, juego y creatividad. En la segunda parte, llevo a cabo la reseña del estudio de caso: desarrollo de sesiones, proceso cronológico de las mismas y proceso personal. La tercera parte está destinada a las conclusiones y reflexiones personales.